US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 16 for "Devices and methods for compact, redundant inductive force sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,636, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for compact, redundant inductive force sensor" was invented by Lizmarie Comenencia Ortiz (San Bruno, Calif.), David I. Moreira Ridsdale (Saratoga, Calif.), Alan W. Petersen (Cupertino, Calif.), Harsukhdeep S. Ratia (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Sharathchandra Somayaji (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashwinram Suresh (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhou Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a mechanical structure and a force sensor unit. The force sensor unit comprises a mounting bracket, a first r...